MRC has published Covid-19: Bulletin n ° 15 Mardi le 07 avril 2020. Excerpt from the Google translation and then a comment:
COVID-19 EPIDEMIOLOGICAL SITUATION IN KINSHASA, IN ITURI NORTH / SOUTH KIVU AND KWILU ON APRIL 07, 2020
Tuesday, April 07, 2020
• Since the start of the epidemic declared on March 10, 2020, the cumulative number is 183 confirmed cases. In total, there were 20 deaths and 10 people healed;
• 51 suspected cases under investigation;
• 1 new person healed;
• 111 patients in good evolution;
• 39 sick people in hospital (including 2 on respiratory assistance in Ngaliema and at the Sino-Congolese Friendship Hospital).
The distribution of hospitalized cases is as follows:
o 27 in Kinshasa, including 9 in Ngaliema, 7 at the Cinquantenaire Hospital, 6 at the University Clinics and 5 at the Sino-Congolese Friendship Hospital;
o 12 in the provinces;
• 3 new confirmed cases in Kinshasa;
• 2 new deaths from confirmed cases.
NEWS
Continuation of the containment of the commune of Gombe in Kinshasa
• Since Monday 06 April 2020, the commune of Gombe is in confinement, the inhabitants of this commune are confined to their homes. A decision taken to limit the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic in Kinshasa and everywhere in the DRC;
• On the second day of this confinement, the response strategies against the Covid-19 accelerate with the continuation of the decontamination activities of the Government House from inside and outside, in particular by disinsection and by the start of disinfection;
• This decontamination work, which concerns all the furniture, offices and other objects of the Hôtel du Gouvernement, will be carried out for five days and is carried out by a mixed team made up of experts from the response committee responsible for prevention and infection control as well as the sanitation service of the Ministry of the Environment;
• To carry out this containment, several barriers were erected by elements of the Congolese national police and the Congolese Armed Forces, as well as members of the Border Hygiene teams;
• The barriers are notably put in place at the crossroads of avenues of liberation-Itaga and Gombe, Huilleries-Itaga and Monts des arts,
• People involved in response activities have access to containment areas, respecting the measures put in place, namely hand washing and taking the temperature.
When you've got the hard-won expertise that the Congolese have gained from no fewer than 10 goddam Ebola outbreaks (the last one just a week, please God, from being declared over), you know what to do and you do it. A few venues around the world understand this intellectually, but the Congolese clearly understand this pandemic as an existential threat: ignore it, or respond half-heartedly, and you're going to die.